Defendant admits illegal organ harvesting in Kosovo hospital
Agence France-Presse A former top Kosovo health ministry official on trial for organ trafficking on Friday admitted that illegal kidney transplants were carried out at a Pristina clinic, but denied...
View ArticleEU court to rule in Kosovo organ trafficking trial
Agence France-Presse An EU-led court in Kosovo is expected to deliver its verdict Monday in the trial of seven people accused of illegal organ harvesting and transplants at a Pristina clinic.The panel...
View ArticleFive sentenced to jail for Kosovo organ trafficking
Agence France-Presse An EU-led court in Kosovo sentenced on Monday five people to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants at a Pristina clinic in 2008.The five...
View ArticleFive doctors jailed for Kosovo organ trafficking
Agence France-Presse An EU-led court in Kosovo on Monday sentenced five doctors to up to eight years in prison for illegal organ harvesting and transplants. Former Kosovo health minister Ilir Rrecaj...
View ArticleProsecutor calls for law to bar Canadians from buying human organs overseas
The Canadian Press Ottawa must pass legislation barring Canadians from buying human organs in foreign countries, a Canadian prosecutor who led a landmark case against several human organs traffickers...
View ArticleStrip China surgeon of Australian award, academics say
Agence France-Presse Australian academics are calling for a Chinese surgeon accused of harvesting organs from prisoners to be stripped of a University of Sydney honorary professorship.Huang Jiefu, who...
View ArticleChina to phase out use of prisoners' organs for transplants
Thomson Reuters By Li Hui and Ben BlanchardBEIJING (Reuters) - China will start phasing out its decades-long practice of using the organs of executed prisoners for transplant operations from November,...
View ArticleChinese boy has eyes gouged out, possibly for corneas
Thomson Reuters BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese police are hunting for a woman suspected of gouging out the eyes of a six-year-old boy, possibly to get her hands on his corneas to sell on the organ...
View Article'Why is it dark?' asks blinded Chinese boy
Agence France-Presse A six-year-old Chinese boy who had his eyes gouged out does not know he has been blinded and asks his family why the sun has yet to rise, state media reported Wednesday.The boy,...
View ArticleChina to end use of prisoners' organs for transplants in mid-2014
Thomson Reuters By Li Hui and Ben BlanchardHANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - China, the only country that still systematically takes organs from executed prisoners for use in transplant operations, plans to...
View ArticleBrazil doctors convicted in organ trafficking scheme
Agence France-Presse Two doctors have been sent to prison in Brazil for selling contraband organs to the United States as part of a suspected trafficking scheme, law enforcement officials said...
View ArticleLebanese man 'caught' trying to buy immigrant's liver
Agence France-Presse Police in Spain arrested a rich Lebanese man suspected of trying to buy the healthy liver of a poor immigrant to receive it as a transplant, officials said Wednesday.They said it...
View ArticleLebanese man arrested in Spain for trying to buy human organs
Agencia EFE Madrid, Mar 12 (EFE).- A Lebanese citizen needing a transplant was arrested in Spain for trying to buy a liver from nine different immigrants.The suspect offered prospective donors up to...
View ArticleLebanese man arrested in Spain for trying to buy human organs
Agencia EFE Madrid, Mar 12 (EFE).- A Lebanese citizen needing a transplant was arrested in Spain for trying to buy a liver from nine different immigrants.The suspect offered prospective donors up to...
View ArticleEurope tightens curbs on organ trafficking
Agence France-Presse The Council of Europe adopted on Wednesday a new international convention to make organ trafficking a criminal offence, giving the police greater scope to hunt mafia groups...
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